Vaporizing attachment for burners.



No. 657,4!2. Patented Sept. 4, I900.

I. L. HAMMOND. VAPOBIZINGATTACHMENT FOR BURNERS.

, (Application m'ea an 11, 1900.

(No Model.)

H H H Wihyzsszs -,H 7772071 1992,9101

m: norms p azas c0. morou'mm wnsrum'ron. a c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

I v Nc L ;.HAMM o ND,1oF LIEWISTON, MAINE.

VAPORIZING ATTACHiMENT FOR BURNERS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 657,412, dated September 4, 1900. Application filed May 11, 1900. Serial No. 16,340. (No model.)

To whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IRVING L. HAMMOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Vaporizing Attachment for Burners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a vaporizing attachment for burners in use on automobiles of that type where steam is the motive power and gasolene the fuel; and the object of the present improvement is to provide a simple and effective starting attachment which remains intact with the burner at all times and ready for operation by a simple adjustment of coacting parts Without requiring the delay and inconvenience arising from the methods .now pursued almost exclusively and which consist in heating a separate piece and adjusting the same to the burner or dipping a cup into or putting a little gasolene therein and setting fire to it and several other ways equally as crude and impractical.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of the compact mechanism employed in an automobile for generating steam and showing the improved attachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the parts of the improved attachment.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in both views.

The numeral 1 designates a burner of the well-known form employed in the compact mechanism for automobiles and provided with an opening 2 in the lower portion of one end for the admission of vapor thereto. A feeding-pipe 3 extends downwardly from a suitable gasolene reservoir or tank and has a controllingwalve 4 therein and is also provided with a supply-valve 5, which is also valved for a purpose which will be readily understood, the lower end of the pipe connecting with a horizontal gas-conveyer 6, having a reduced outlet-nozzle 7 at one end entering the opening 2 and controlled by a valve 8. Secured to the outer end of the valve 5 is the upper terminal 9 of a copper pipe which is formed into an inverted funnelshaped vaporizer 10 below, having its lower terminal 11 also connected to the vapor-conpipe 3 thereto. The coils of the vaporizer are closely arranged to produce a conical chamber, and at diametrically-opposite points on the lower portion thereof are eyes or analogous devices 12 to detachably receive suspending-hooks 13, movably secured to the upper or top portion of an initial or starting burner comprising a containing-body 14 for alcohol and supplied with upstanding tubes 15 to receive and support wicks 16 to form burners which are located directly under the bottom of the vaporizer 10. V

In the operation of the improved attachment to start the burner, the starting-burner is suspended from the vaporizer and the wicks thereof are ignited. The valve 40f the pipe 3 is closed and the valve 5 opened, as well as the valve 8. The gasolene will now; run down through the vaporizer, and the latter beco'ming rapidly heated, owing to the fact that it thereof through the coils of the vaporizer,

and pass into the vapor-conveyer 6 and from the latter into the burner 1 through the nozzle 7 and there also become ignited and serve as a fuel for generating steam in the boiler of the motor. When the water in the boiler of the motor rises to a degree of over 180 Fahrenheit, which is a degree of temperature high enough to heat the conveyor and pipe 3 by transmission through the metallic structure of said parts for vaporizing purposes without the assistance of the improved attachment, the valve 5 is closed and valve l opened, which cuts out the vaporizer, and the pipe 3 having become sufficiently heated the vapor is formed therein and enters the conveyor 6 direct and from the latter into the burner 1. The starting-burner is then detached from the lower portion of the vaporizer and put away in the vehicle until desired for future use. From the foregoing it will be seen that the motor can be started without attaching any separate vaporizer to the burner and that the preliminary vaporizer is always in fixed position and ready for immediate use.

The advantages of the improved attach ment are manifold, and among others may be mentioned that it is set in operation by ;a. match, is mainly a fixed part of the motor,

2 will quickly start the burner of the motor, is

odorless, and compact in form and easily haudled "and understood.

Though the preferred form of the improved device has been shown and described, it will be understood that changes in the form, size, proportions, and minor details may be resorted to without departing from the princi=. ple of the invention. 4

Having thus described theinvention, what a is claimed as new is- The combination with the burner of an automobile-motor, of a feeding-pipe for oil provided with a supply-valve and a controlling. valve below thelatter, avapor conveyer communicating with the pipe and. burner, a vaporizer of conical form having its reduced end p conveyer, an-d a-startin g-bur-nerha'vi-n g a plurality of individual burners and disposed be neath the entire bottom area of the vaporizer in a removable manner to cause the products of combustion and heated air to ascend through the latter and escape through the constricted top portion;

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses V V IRVING L. HAMMOND.

Witnesses: Y

NEWELL, ALICE J. BRADBURY. 

